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Zombies are all the rage nowadays. Sure, they've always been around but now it seems like they're in everything. Even Captain America has been zombified, is nothing sacred anymore? Actually, it's all pretty cool but I think it's gone a bit too far. Over saturation isn't good for anything, or anyone, unless you're making your living off of this new fad. Herein lies the problem. In our Mountain Dew Gamer Fuel culture, if it isn't EXTREME! then it isn't going to sell, and there isn't a whole lot extreme about zombies... Traditional zombies are slow moving, dim witted and relatively easy to neutralize. Dump a little gamer fuel on your zombies though and you've got Rage infected, scheming, juggernauts that keep you on the edge of your seat while the busty survivor does her best to live until the sun comes up. Here are just a few reasons why a zombie fad is a bad thing for the genre.

    I judge a Lost episode's greatness based on how much I enjoyed the mythology in the episode. This week, there wasn't much... at least not until the end. I don't have a whole lot to talk about this week because I don't care much about Kate's story and that's about all we got this week. That being said, I did like the episode. Kate's story was well acted and edited. It didn't drag on too long and we now know why she was so torn up when she ended up at Jack's before the Ajira flight. We got to see Cassidy again this episode and the twist to that storyline was that Kate left Aaron with Claire's mom... not a huge shocker and it won't have a big impact on the overall plot.

    He's Our You is the tipping point for the season five story arch. What I mean by that is that we'll see events in the Dharma timeline get out of hand and bring an end to Sawyer and Juliet's 70s house party. The other half of the cast, stuck in present times, has a bit more of a journey ahead of them as Christian Shepherd said in Namaste. The more interesting storyline at the moment is back in 1977 and the pace started picking up at the end of this week's episode with young Ben Linus getting shot in the chest by Sayid.

Last Friday was the official start of Spring, and with some good weather finally sweeping in, it was time to celebrate. Nothing says sunny days and lazy afternoons like fruity sangria. I’ve dubbed the recipes below “Springria” in honor of the new season.

I've included recipes for both white and red wine based sangria. Enjoy some sangria with your friends and enjoy the start of spring!

I really love olives and I really love dips. So I wanted to create a recipe that used olives, and lots of them. Several recipes I have tasted, have olives in them, but they were more of just a dip with olives rather than an olive dip. I wanted to create something that tasted Mediterranean but still was using common ingredients, most importantly, lots of olives. It has the texture of a tapenade, but a lot more flavors. I have made this dip several times and heard some good comments from my fellow olive lovers.

The NFL Rules Committee recently passed a ban on defenders tackling a Quarterback while they're on the ground.

The NFL legislates just like the government:
Take one “shit happens” moment out of a plethora of otherwise unremarkable incidents and make a rule against it. All because of ONE play out of a season of literally thousands.

“Rule of thumb: When someone says, "There ought to be a law…” there probably ought NOT to be."
-Penn & Teller